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Article 1. Fees and Allowances
§59-1-1. Fee for Use of State Seal - Except when the seal is used on the papers of...
§59-1-2. Fees to Be Charged by Secretary of State - (a) Except as may be otherwise provided in this code,...
§59-1-2a. Annual Business Fees to Be Paid to the Secretary of State; Filing of Annual Reports; Purchase of Data - (a) Definitions. As used in this section: (1) "Annual report...
§59-1-2b. Purchase of Voter Registration Lists and Election Data; Fees - (a) Except as may be otherwise provided in this code,...
§59-1-2c. Young Entrepreneur Reinvestment Act; Certain Fees Waived - Beginning on July 1, 2016, a person who is under...
§59-1-3. Fees to Be Charged by Auditor - The Auditor shall charge for services rendered in his office...
§59-1-4. Fees Collected by Secretary of State, Auditor and Clerk of Supreme Court of Appeals to Be Paid Into State Treasury; Accounts; Reports - Except as otherwise provided by law, the fees to be...
§59-1-5. Violations of Preceding Section - Any wilful violation of the preceding section by the Auditor,...
§59-1-6. Fees to Be Charged by Surveyors - Surveyors may charge the following fees: For all surveying actually...
§59-1-7. Fees to Be Charged by Notaries Public - A notary public may charge the following fees: When there...
§59-1-8. Compensation of Commissioners of Courts - A commissioner, except where it is otherwise specially provided, shall...
§59-1-9. Compensation of Fiduciary Commissioners; Procedure for Approving - The county commission shall promulgate by order a schedule of...
§59-1-10. Fees to Be Charged by Clerk of County Commission - For the purpose of this section, the word "page" is...
§59-1-11. Fees to Be Charged by Clerk of Circuit Court - (a) The clerk of a circuit court shall charge and...
§59-1-11a. Additional Costs in Certain Criminal Proceedings - (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of...
§59-1-12. Payment of Fines by Credit Card or Payment Plan - A circuit court may accept credit cards in payment of...
§59-1-13. Fees to Be Charged by Clerk of Supreme Court of Appeals - The Clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals shall charge...
§59-1-14. Fees to Be Charged by Sheriffs - (a) The county commission shall determine the amount which the...
§59-1-15. Payments to Sheriffs and Clerks Out of State or County Treasury - There shall be paid out of the State Treasury to...
§59-1-16. Amount of Allowance to Witnesses for Attendance; How and When Made - A person attending any court or other tribunal, under a...
§59-1-17. By Whom Witnesses Paid; on What Certificate; Clerk's Certificate as to Claims; Dispute as to Claims - The sum to which a witness is entitled shall be...
§59-1-18. To Whom Fees Charged; Services by Clerks and Sheriffs Without Fees - The fees mentioned in this article shall be chargeable to...
§59-1-19. Fee Books of Clerks - Every clerk of a court shall keep a fee book,...
§59-1-20. Making Out Fee Bills; Motion to Quash Improper Fee Bill; Prepayment of Fees - No person shall be compelled to pay any fees before...
§59-1-21. Fee Bills of County Clerk - The clerk of the county court may make out tickets...
§59-1-22. Duties of Successor of Deceased Clerk With Reference to Fee Books and Fee Bills - When a clerk dies, his successor shall charge in the...
§59-1-23. Requisites and Effect of Fee Bills for Services of Deceased Clerk - The fee bills made out under the preceding section shall...
§59-1-24. Collection of Fees; Receipt - Every officer mentioned in this article shall, on or before...
§59-1-25. Accounting for Fees - Every sheriff or collector to whom such fee bills are...
§59-1-26. Limitation on Distress or Suit for Collection of Fees - No fee, when a fee bill has not been issued,...
§59-1-27. Lodging Fee Bills and Certificates in Clerk's Office; Application of Costs to Payment Thereof; Prepayment or Security to Officer - An officer or witness to whom, for fees or attendance,...
§59-1-28. Use and Disposition of Fees of Sheriffs, Clerks and Prosecuting Attorneys - Except for the funds designated in section twenty-eight-a of this...
§59-1-28a. Disposition of Filing Fees in Civil Actions and Fees for Services in Criminal Cases - (a) Except for those payments to be made from amounts...
§59-1-29. Collection of Such Fees - Each clerk of the county commission, sheriff, clerk of the...
§59-1-30. Books of Account to Be Kept by Officers - Each of the officers named in the preceding section shall...
§59-1-31. Monthly Payments; How Credited; Report Required - Except for the funds designated in section twenty-eight-a of this...
§59-1-32. Reduction or Remission of Fees Prohibited; Penalty for Default in Payment - None of the officers named in section twenty-nine of this...
§59-1-33. Deposit for Costs - When any action at law, suit in equity or other...
§59-1-35. Supervision by Chief Inspector of Public Offices - If, upon any examination made under authority of article nine,...
§59-1-36. Fees and Allowances for Poor Persons - If a person shall present to the proper collecting officer...
§59-1-37. Deposits by County Officers in Noninterest Bearing or Interest Bearing Accounts; Payment to County General Fund; Annual Report - Except as to any tax receipts, which shall be deposited...
§59-1-38. County Officers to Issue Receipts of Collections - Any county officer, as described in section thirty-seven of this...
§59-1-39. Removal of County Officer - If any county officer shall fail to comply with the...
Article 2. Costs Generally
§59-2-1. Suits by Persons Financially Unable to Pay - (a) A natural person who is financially unable to pay...
§59-2-3. New Bond - On motion of an obligor in such bond, after reasonable...
§59-2-4. Costs on Motions and Interlocutory Proceedings - Upon any motion (other than for a judgment for money),...
§59-2-5. Payment of Costs on Granting of New Trial or Continuance - New trials may be granted upon the payment of costs,...
§59-2-6. Where Recovery of Damages Less Than Fifty Dollars in Action Ex Delicto - In any personal action not on contract, which might be...
§59-2-7. Judgment Where Recovery Is Fifty Dollars or Less in Action Ex Contractu - In any personal action on contract instituted in a court...
§59-2-8. Costs on Final Judgment; Judgment For, or Discontinuance as To, Some of Defendants - Except where it is otherwise provided, the party for whom...
§59-2-9. Costs When Original Papers or Record Replaced - For replacing the original papers in any cause, or the...
§59-2-10. Suit by One Person for Benefit of Another - When a suit is in the name of one person...
§59-2-11. Laws as to Costs Not Deemed Penal; Discretion of Court of Equity as to Costs; Costs in Appellate Courts - The laws of costs shall not be interpreted as penal...
§59-2-12. Costs When Case Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction - In any instance where a case, an appeal, writ of...
§59-2-13. Who Is to Tax Costs - The clerk of a court wherein a party recovers costs...
§59-2-14. Taxation of Statute Fees - He shall include in the costs to the prevailing party:...
§59-2-15. General Taxation of Costs - The clerk shall tax in the costs all fees of...
§59-2-16. Taxation of Costs for Witnesses; Entry After Execution or Adjournment; Assignment or Transfer of Costs - The court may restrict the taxation in the costs for...
§59-2-17. Fees of Prosecuting Attorney - The clerk shall include in the costs, for fees of...
§59-2-18. Judgment or Decree on Behalf of State for Costs - In a case wherein there is judgment or decree on...
§59-2-19. Premiums on Surety Company Bonds - The clerk or justice shall include in the costs of...
Article 3. Newspapers and Legal Advertisements
§59-3-1. Definitions and General Provisions - (a) As used in this article, elsewhere in this code...
§59-3-2. Classification of Legal Advertisements; Designation of Newspapers; Frequency of Publication; Posting; Manner of Publishing; Publication of Notices for the State and Its Agencies - (a) A Class I legal advertisement shall be published one...
§59-3-3. Rates for Legal Advertisements; Computation; Filing Affidavits With Secretary of State - (a) The rates which a publisher or proprietor of a...
§59-3-4. Proof of Publication and Posting - (a) Any qualified newspaper publishing a legal advertisement incident to...
§59-3-5. Mandamus to Compel Publication - Any citizen, taxpayer, or the publisher or proprietor of any...
§59-3-6. Political Advertisements - In no case involving the publication of paid advertisements for...
§59-3-7. Criminal and Civil Penalties - (a) Any person who publishes a legal advertisement and who...
§59-3-8. Construction of Article; Repeal; Subsequent Legislation - This article is intended to standardize and make uniform certain...
§59-3-9. Severability - If any provision of this act or the application thereof...